Let’s face it: Smoking meats on a gas grill or one of those cheap charcoal smokers is a downer.
I love my Weber One-Touch Gold Kettle. There’s plenty of grilling surface on this 22.5 inch model, the ash catcher makes clean up a snap and the flip up grill grate allows “stoking” the fire for long cooking times.
Still, I have been stymied by no temperature gauge. I took matters into my own hands.
I scored a replacement thermometer for a gas grill at Home Depot and tricked out my Weber.
First, use a …

Cook Like A Savannah Native, Eat Like An Honored Guest
Damon Lee Fowler is so enamored of Southern food and its heritage that he left a career in architecture to pursue the grits trail that meanders through the kitchens and dining rooms of the region. The journey resulted in five critically acclaimed cookbooks, travelogues if you will, that have chronicled the ingredients, methods and people that give Southern cuisine its legendary mantle.
[singlepic=11,320,240,,left]In his newest book, The Savannah Cookbook, the journey continues. But this volume reads more like a passionate love letter …

By Tim Rutherford
I wanted this first essay to be a new piece of writing. I labored for days trying to wrap my mind about where to begin. I could set the piece in today